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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 5, 2022

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Hunter could possibly have gotten a cushy job for nothing and then done nothing; given his personal history, that seems like it should be the default assumption. But this would have only looked especially bad for Hunter Biden, and no one was voting for him.

At the very least, the laptop includes cryptographically-signed e-mails from Pozharskyi, a Burisma executive, thanking Hunter for an introduction to his father in 2015, which the White House denied and continued to deny after the e-mail was first released. There are some ways that this might not be illegal, and a far greater number where it's the sort of illegal that doesn't actually get prosecuted (who wants to learn about FARA today, not fucking me), but it's still much stronger evidence of a scandal involving Joe Biden.

Separately, there's evidence included that is almost certainly violation of the law for Hunter, in ways that mouching off international executives might not be, and that had connections or funding from Joe Biden. The first half of that's not new -- getting the kid glove treatment when a drug addict was throwing around handguns was an older story -- and while it's improper it's one of those things that's got a long history. The latter is a more serious issue. I don't think Joe realized he was funding Russian-linked prostitution rings when wiring his son cash, but it's also a pretty big oopsie.